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Roughness Model of Radar Backscattering From Bare Soil Surfaces
Amimul Ehsan
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department,
University of Kansas
April 29, 2015
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Outlines
Motivation and Objective
Introduction
Surface Roughness
Backscattering Roughness Model
Results and Discussions
Reference
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Motivation and Objective
Radar Backscattering is affected by three target features namely
surface roughness, vegetation and soil moisture. To get the effect of
any particular feature, other two need to be subtracted from the
measured backscattering.
The main goal of this study is to determine the dependence of radar
backscatter on roughness parameter.
Three models namely Physical Optics Model, Geometric Optics
Model and Small perturbation Model are studied for backscattering.
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Introduction
When microwave EM energy
transmitted by a RADAR
system reaches the earth
surface, some is absorbed by
the surface and the remainder
is reflected in multiple
directions.
These surface reflections are
referred to as scattering of
microwave EM energy.
The microwave EM energy that is scattered in the Radarβs direction of
transmission is the only EM energy that is detected by the radar β this EM energy
is referred to as microwave or radar backscatter
Fig. Schematic view of scattering geometry [3]
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Surface Roughness
Rough surface corresponds to Gaussian distribution.
πΌ π (π )=πΌ π 0|π 0 (π )|2ππ₯π (βhπππ 2π )
π (π§ )= 1
π (2π )1 /2 ππ₯π (βπ§ 2/2π2 )
where, the scattered intensity with roughness parameter,
Surface roughness depends on standard deviation of height, and correlation length, . Here, corresponds to the vertical scale roughness and corresponds to the horizontal scale roughness.
Surface roughness types
Fig. Schematic of types of surface roughness [3]
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Physical Optics Model
This model predicts the incoherent backscattering coefficient for a given surface.
where, is the incident angle ππ<0.3ππ π<0.048 Ξ»
πππ π ππππ<0.25
π πππ0 (π )=(ππ )2 [|π ππ|
2 (1+π ππ2π )+π π (π ππ π ππ 1β ) π ππ2 π ]Γπβhπππ 2 πβ
π=1
β (hπππ 2π )π
π !πΓπ
β(πΎππ ππ π )2
π
is the wave number in air
is the reflectivity of smooth surface
Conditions under this model applicable,
πΎπ>6
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Geometric Optics Model
This model has the form,
(2πΎ π πππ π )2>10
ππ»π»0 (π )=[|π π»π» (π )|2/ ( 2π2πππ 2π )]Γπ(β π‘ππ
2 π2π2 )
where, is the reflectivity is the RMS surface slope and
Conditions of this model,
πΎπ>6
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Small Perturbation Model
This model has the form,
ππ<0.3ππ π<0.048 Ξ»
πππ π ππππ<0.3ππ π<0.21 π
ππ»π»=8πΎ 4π2πππ 4 π|π π»|2[ 1
2 π2 πβ (πππ ππ π )2]
Surface roughness that has a Gaussian correlation function,
Ο (ΞΆ )=expβ( ΞΆ2
π2 )This model can be used for,
πΎπ<6
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Roughness Effect on Backscattering
Physical Optics and Geometric Optics Model
Fig. Backscattering of Physical Optics Model by varying the roughness parameter
Fig. Backscattering of Geometric Optics Model by varying the roughness parameter
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Roughness Effect on Backscattering
Small Perturbation Model
Fig. Backscattering of Small Perturbation Model by varying the roughness parameter
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References
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